brilliant. amazing when they slow down, their biceps and triceps don't look much different from ours, though extremely toned. but the whole back half does shiat ours is so far away from. gorgeous animals.

I've seen a slow-mo video of a cheetah closing on prey at about 50mph, the prey didn't move. The cheetah snagged it, tore if off the ground breaking the prey's stuck leg and did a tumble, the prey arched into the air as the cheetah and it tumbled downrange a bit and the cheetah recovered enough to pounce back on the prey and kill it.

like the best cat attack video out there on the web... and it was 1986

I've seen a slow-mo video of a cheetah closing on prey at about 50mph, the prey didn't move. The cheetah snagged it, tore if off the ground breaking the prey's stuck leg and did a tumble, the prey arched into the air as the cheetah and it tumbled downrange a bit and the cheetah recovered enough to pounce back on the prey and kill it.

like the best cat attack video out there on the web... and it was 1986

I've seen a slow-mo video of a cheetah closing on prey at about 50mph, the prey didn't move. The cheetah snagged it, tore if off the ground breaking the prey's stuck leg and did a tumble, the prey arched into the air as the cheetah and it tumbled downrange a bit and the cheetah recovered enough to pounce back on the prey and kill it.

like the best cat attack video out there on the web... and it was 1986

I've seen a slow-mo video of a cheetah closing on prey at about 50mph, the prey didn't move. The cheetah snagged it, tore if off the ground breaking the prey's stuck leg and did a tumble, the prey arched into the air as the cheetah and it tumbled downrange a bit and the cheetah recovered enough to pounce back on the prey and kill it.

like the best cat attack video out there on the web... and it was 1986

I've seen a slow-mo video of a cheetah closing on prey at about 50mph, the prey didn't move. The cheetah snagged it, tore if off the ground breaking the prey's stuck leg and did a tumble, the prey arched into the air as the cheetah and it tumbled downrange a bit and the cheetah recovered enough to pounce back on the prey and kill it.

like the best cat attack video out there on the web... and it was 1986

I've seen a slow-mo video of a cheetah closing on prey at about 50mph, the prey didn't move. The cheetah snagged it, tore if off the ground breaking the prey's stuck leg and did a tumble, the prey arched into the air as the cheetah and it tumbled downrange a bit and the cheetah recovered enough to pounce back on the prey and kill it.

like the best cat attack video out there on the web... and it was 1986

lol

farking children masturbating on the web like everything is so new.

I give more weight to your posts because of your history of truly understanding nature and shiat.*rolls eyes*

wildcardjack:Actually leads me to wonder where the kangaroo's hop came from.

The kangaroo occupies an ecological niche similar to the deer, but I don't associate a predator. I wonder if the Australian aboriginals had something to do with that.

Aboriginals have 'only' inhabited the Australian land mass for about 40,000 years, since the last ice age - that last part is off the top of my head, so I may be corrected - by which time the basic mechanics of the kangaroo would have already been developed.

You got me thinking, though, so I looked it up and lifted this from Wikipedia: Kangaroos and wallabies have large, stretchy tendons in their hind legs. They store elastic strain energy in the tendons of their large hind legs, providing most of the energy required for each hop by the spring action of the tendons rather than by any muscular effort. This is true in all animal species which have muscles connected to their skeleton through elastic elements such as tendons, but the effect is more pronounced in kangaroos.

There is also a link between the hopping action and breathing: as the feet leave the ground, air is expelled from the lungs; bringing the feet forward ready for landing refills the lungs, providing further energy efficiency. Studies of kangaroos and wallabies have demonstrated that, beyond the minimum energy expenditure required to hop at all, increased speed requires very little extra effort (much less than the same speed increase in, say, a horse, dog or human), and that the extra energy is required to carry extra weight. For kangaroos, the key benefit of hopping is not speed to escape predators-the top speed of a kangaroo is no higher than that of a similarly sized quadruped, and the Australian native predators are in any case less fearsome than those of other countries - but economy: in an infertile country with highly variable weather patterns, the ability of a kangaroo to travel long distances at moderately high speed in search of food sources is crucial to survival.

What forced the ancestor of the kangaroo to develop these mechanics in the era of Australian mega-fauna, I have no idea.

Not to take anything away from the tecnical accomplishment of the video. But the Cheetah is renowned as the world's fasted land animal. After the first couple of strides it more like watching a video of a jet fighter taxi.

We were at the Bronx Zoo when my daughter was a toddler and we went to see the cheetah and I would swear that that cat was stalking my daughter. And anytime she would move one way the cheetah would follow her she'd turn around and the damn thing would do the same thing. Kind of cool, kind of creepy.

Pentaxian:We were at the Bronx Zoo when my daughter was a toddler and we went to see the cheetah and I would swear that that cat was stalking my daughter. And anytime she would move one way the cheetah would follow her she'd turn around and the damn thing would do the same thing. Kind of cool, kind of creepy.

Stalking, not likely. Despite being an apex predator, cheetahs are extremely picky in their diet, mostly because they're actually very, very fragile creatures. Just about any kind of injury is a death sentence for a cheetah - unless they're travelling in a pack - because they rely on their speed to hunt. For a cheetah to consider a human, even a child human, as prey, it would have to have no fear of humans. Unlikely for a zoo cat.Cheetahs were, and still are, one of the most tame-able of the "big cats".

I've seen a slow-mo video of a cheetah closing on prey at about 50mph, the prey didn't move. The cheetah snagged it, tore if off the ground breaking the prey's stuck leg and did a tumble, the prey arched into the air as the cheetah and it tumbled downrange a bit and the cheetah recovered enough to pounce back on the prey and kill it.

like the best cat attack video out there on the web... and it was 1986

lol

farking children masturbating on the web like everything is so new.

That's nice. Can you stop patting yourself on the back for a second and give us a link to that totally amazing, ultra cool video you saw or -- as an alternative -- STFU and let us enjoy this thing that's right in front of us, you smug-assed douche bag.